Highlight of the Week

🎉Cohort 3 has started!! 🎉

These past few weeks we’ve consistently had Cohort 3 fellows drop into the Discord server. 

Now, finally, they’re all in, they have been initiated, the Blood Oath has been taken, they are now bound to Stoa for life, just like the rest of us. 

Varun wrote us some notes on our Inaugural for Cohort 3 with Nitin Kamath from Zerodha!
Feast your eyes!

Varun Pimplé @varun_pimple

When @Nithin0dha dropped by @StoaHQ for some candid conversations and insights into how he built @zerodhaonline

12:57 PM ∙ Jul 4, 2021

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Let’s Rewind: Last Week at Stoa 📆

Brand Strategy 101: 

Last Sunday we had Fishhook co-founders Yohan & Shobith come & run a Brand Strategy workshop for us. 
There was a lot of information in that one lone workshop, so I hope you had the chance to attend.

Speed Meeting:

We had our first Speed Meeting in a long minute last week, and Shelton came up with what seems to be one of the top prompts in Speed Meeting so far. 
For those of you that missed it, you probably spotted the new channel on our Discord and some very interesting storytelling on it. 
Here’s context: We put all the attendees in breakout rooms with 3 constraints to build an ad launching Cred’s new Crypto product. These were:

• A startup founder from India

• An elephant

• Chess 

Tanishka Goel, Rahul Deshpande, Abdul Poonawala & Akshit Gupta’s team
🐳blew all the other teams out of the water🐳
This is what it was:

Announcements 📢

Learning

• Moving all learning  to Circle
  If you have not yet signed into your Circle accounts, we recommend you do it   right now. 
  Please check your mails for the invite, and move us out of your Promotions folder, if we’re not in your main inbox, thankyou thankyou!

Community

• For those of you still caught unaware, Akshay’s building a bot that allows you to save your bookmarks on most mediums, including Discord & Twitter. 
  You can find his explanation for it, in older Digests, as well as here. 

Bro, treat? 🎂

Henil Shah - tomorrow!!

Feel free to slide into his DMs, shout him out, and just make him feel special on his birthday!!

Community Buzz 🐝

Things community folk are doing

• There’s a Bombay meetup incomiinngg - go beyond your zoomrooms!
  Please remain safe though - Vaccinated, Sanitised & Safely Distanced. 

• Amogh seems to be another hidden diamond in the rough when it comes to note-taking, we’re going to have to wait & watch. 

• Ever wondered how to indulge in the content you’re consuming & actually create something from it? Pratyush wrote you some pointers here. 

• Did you know Kanchan’s doing a countrywide roadtrip, and eating the best food and NOT tweeting it? Find her droolworthy images here.

Fellows Rocket 🚀Shipping⛴ content

🔗 On Linked-In:

• Have you had a chance to check out Aditya’s ‘100 days of MBA’ yet?

• Nihal Rustgi

• Renga aka Bob playing that consistency game really, really well!!

• Vikrant Mehra

• Animesh Mishra

• Swapnil Agarwal

🐦 Tweeple: 

• AZenGuy? A Gen Z guy? A-Z Gen Guy? Mayank Jain

• Mridul Sharma

• Sameer Mohan

• Saumya Saxena with his first ever Twitter thread inspired by a Stoa conversation!

• Nihal Rustgi

• Noah Martins

For Stoans by Stoans ✍🏼📚⏯

Books 📚

We have a book club for Stoans that Mayank Jain runs, pls blow up his DMs for entry into the secret club. 

• Robert Greene - The 33 strategies of war

• TM Krishna - The Spirit of Enquiry

• You’ll find LOADS of recommendations here, if youre looking for your next set of books to start reading.

Watchtime 🎥

• Do you pour your beer well or no?

• Looking for the Psychology behind our behaviours?

• Short Snippy Stories

Blogs & Resources 🤓

• Pranav wrote about his ideas on the future of Remote Work - find them here. 

• If you’re ever looking for a way to learn Machine Learning

• Some of the best pitch decks from Startups you know

• Looking to automate your crypto buying? Zebb to the rescue!

• The ultimate guide to First Principles Thinking

• How to Work Hard

• Are you avoiding risk

Weekend Binges

This week’s Digest features two different kind of binges. 

• A recommendation on great pastries in Goa

• Sweet tooth in Bangalore? Eat

• Crackle in an icecream? Ice cold!

Kidding, here’s some other suggestions for binges:

• Amogh has these suggestions

• What Vikrant brought up

• Blackadder?

Meme Wars 🥲

This week’s shiny new winner of Best Meme goes to …………

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Ujwal Ratra!!

Ujwal Ratra @ujwal_ratra

Teacher: What's the best symbol for unity in diversity? @Nithin0dha:

10:17 AM ∙ Jul 3, 2021

Ishaan came a close second!!

To end, we’ll leave you with this: 

There’s enough & more in the newsletter this week, and so much more happening in our Community, 🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️Pace Yourself & ✨Be Gentle! ✨